Date: 11/11/05 (Computer Geeks)    Keywords: no keywords

Hi everybody!

I was wondering about ftp clients. I don’t need one or anything, in fact I have various ftp servers set up for different sites. Most of the people who use the ftp accounts use windows. I tried looking for a list of ftp clients that would be good for windows, other than windows explorer. I know windows explorer works with ftp, but it can be a hassle sometimes when the server requires a username like, ‘somebody@somewhere.com’ instead of just ‘username’. It does work, but it’s a little tricky for some of the users. So anyways, when I look at the various ftp clients, I notice that a lot of them are not free (for windows users, naturally). This just struck me as ridiculously odd.

So, I wanted to ask you guys about the commercial ftp clients. What features could an ftp client possibly have that would make it worth anything. I’ll admit that having a gui interface on an ftp client is handy, but I use konqueror, which also supports sftp. But obviously there are free gui ftp clients available, and operating systems have those included. So why would somebody not use the free version, or a freeware or open source version over a commercial version?

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